Writer to Writer: A Conversation with Jon Land

Jon Land is a prolific author who has written 40 novels. David Morrell, the master of contemporary thriller fiction, called Jon the creator of the techno-thriller, which Jon began writing before Tom Clancy made the genre popular.

Jon attended Brown University where he convinced the faculty to let him write a thriller as his senior honors thesis. Four years later, his first novel, The Doomsday Spiral, was published. Jon then began writing the Blaine McCracken novels, which were tales of a rogue...